Towards the assessment of adaptive vs. rigid coping styles: Validation of the Frankfurt Monitoring Blunting Scales by means of confirmatory factor analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 295-306

  Voss, Ursula ^a   Müller, Hans ^b   Schermelleh Engel, Karin ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blunting; Factor analysis; Monitoring; Rigid and adaptive coping; Second order factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646397325     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.12.021     Document Type: Article

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